Are you going out today?

[Bridgeofpies]

If you aren’t self isolating (of course) are you going out today?

We are thinking of going to a National Trust place so that we can go for a walk. Obviously we will be staying outside, keeping a safe distance from everyone else and will bring our own sandwiches. We won’t let the kids use the play area (if it is even open).

I’m finding it hard to risk assess! Now that the kids are off school I am keen to get outside and get then running around as much as possible but obviously want to be sensible!

bridge We went past a couple of packed kids playgrounds 🤷‍♀️. We kept well away from them.

I thought NT were closing? Thought they wrote to say they were?

Ah ok just rechecked the email “many” are closing now

I went to the shops today and there seems to be more stuff on the shelves tonight than there was a week ago when I last went. So that’s good.

No just the garden which is looking very nice

Very true

OK scratch that. I hadn’t read the latest news. NT now closing any gated gardens / parks - you are right @Onceuponatimethen!

So I guess we will be in the small garden we have thankfully got and maybe go for a walk in our local vicinity. I need to go out every day or I am not a good person to live with!! Not planning. To visit the shops again for at least 10 days!

This with symptoms do not need to isolate past 7 days if they are ok

Isolation for 14 days is for other family members on the basis it can take 7 days to be symptomatic and then 7 days infectious

We aren’t symptomatic (at the moment at least). Just wanting to be cautious and not add fuel to the fire in terms of the spread!

This applies to all living alone or with others

The 14 days is for the rest of the family not you

You are only infectious 7 days

If family members get symptoms they stay I 7 days after start of symptoms regardless of that take them over 14 days

Yes, I'm the one who's had it but it was my 8th day (possibly 9th) day today and although I still have a cough, I was okay to go and get groceries today. DH and DS have another week to go. DH developed symptoms today so his 7 days end pretty much the same as he would have been (if he has no fever then). DS has no symptoms so unless he develops any, he is out of quarantine next weekend. Not that there is anywhere to go and we'll still follow social isolation.

We will however need to go and collect DS2 from Uni as he's stayed away while we were in quarantine. He'll join us in social isolation unless he develops symptoms and will be in complete quarantine.

Waxon, surely if someone in the household develops symptoms today (your hubby) then you are meant to isolate the whole household for at least seven days? IE why were you out at the shops potentially spreading germs when you should have been at home? Have you just infected people?

Elieza, No. I developed symptoms last Friday/Saturday. That meant I had to have 7 days in isolation but DH and DS then had to do 14. I finished my 7 then went shopping as, you know, 3 people stuck in for 7 days with no delivery slots etc meant we'd run out of some stuff. Given that we work and usually do a grocery shop at the weekend, it meant that it had been two weeks since I'd done a shop.

I've had it so should effectively be immune and no longer infectious. DH has developed symptoms today so he has to now do 7 days, that co-incides with the end of the 14 he already was in the middle of.

So, no I haven't been out spreading germs. I've been in ill and quarantined because some ignorant shit at work came back from holiday in Italy and didn't bother to isolate himself. I've fared better than the colleague who ended up with pneumonia in hospital. Not only did he lose our employer 3 people (also another case similar to me at work) for at least a week, he's deprived the NHS of my DHs services too. And who knows how many people we all might have infected when we were contagious but didn't know.

The 7/14 days doesn't restart becasue someone else in the household develops symptoms, that's not how it works.

DS doesn't have any symptoms at all but he is 19 so in the group least likely to have any and still be infected. I can't see any way he won't have caught it given that although I practice good general hygiene, I was preparing all his food etc and obviously sharing a house for 7 days while probably infectious.

Thank god. It’s a scary time.